Musica Tra Amici
From Europe to Hollywood
A concert tracing the journey of the exiled romantic composers who fled Nazism and war in Europe and made their home in Los Angeles
Didn't make the LIVE performance?
You can still see the show through VIDEO-ON-DEMAND for only $17!
VOD will be availalble
through Sunday, March 31 at midnight.
“Hitler shook the tree and America gathered the apples”
- Thomas Mann
In the early 20th century an influx of refugees, fleeing war and persecution in Europe and lured by economic opportunities and beautiful weather, rapidly formed, within a few square miles near Hollywood, one of the most talented and prolific communities in music history. Attempting to recreate the world they left, they altered the course of American culture.
The émigrés included Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Bertolt Brecht, Dylan Thomas, Bertrand Russell, W. H. Auden, Aldous Huxley, Leon Feuchtwanger, Franz Werfel, and Alma Mahler, but, perhaps most remarkably, Los Angeles hosted arguably the most unprecedented gathering of compositional talent in a single city since 1800s Vienna. Representing virtually every facet the musical spectrum, they included Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Bernard Hermann , Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Miklós Rózsa, Arnold Schoenberg, Max Steiner, Igor Stravinsky, Alexandre Tansman, Ernst Toch, Franz Waxman, and Kurt Weill, and those who worked in the Hollywood studios used their innate romantic musical styles to define film music in a manner that endures to this day. As Stravinsky said in that era, “Hollywood is the center of the music world!”
An all star lineup of performers including Houston Symphony concertmaster Yoonshin Song and violinist Tong Yan, principal viola Joan DerHovsepyan, principal cellist Brinton Smith and acclaimed concert pianist Evelyn Chen, joined by returning audience favorite Musica Tra Amici ‘next generation’ singers Calista Ro-Jei Smith and Brittany Halen will present a program including Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s shatteringly beautiful piano quintet, exciting piano music of Miklós Rózsa and songs of Kurt Weill and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
We look forward to bringing you some of the most beautiful music you may have never heard before.
SUNDAY, MARCH 17 at 7:00 PM
RUNTIME:
90 minutes with no intermission
Reception immediatly to follow
TICKETS:
$35 Regular
$25 Students/Seniors
$17 Livestream/VOD Access
Please note that there will be a $3 per ticket fee added at checkout.
GENERAL INFORMATION
*Online sales will end 30 minutes prior to the scheduled curtain time. At this time tickets may be purchased in-person at the box office.
The box office opens 2 hours prior to the performance time for WILL CALL and walkup sales.
No refunds or cancellations available after purchase.
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